Article: Q257630
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 6.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbCtrl kbRebarCtrl kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix
Last Modified: 03-FEB-2002
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, version 6.0
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
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A Visual Basic application that has a CoolBar control crashes while exiting the
application. This occurs when there is an End statement in the unload event of
the form that hosts a CoolBar control. This behavior occurs only when running
the executable and does not happen in the Visual Basic integrated development
environment (IDE). The error message is similar to the following:
In the Windows 9x platform:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown.
Clicking on the Details button may reveal text similar to the following:
PROJECT1 caused an exception 10H in module MSVBVM60.DLL at 015f:66024d53.
In Windows NT or Windows 2000 platform, the following error message appears:
Form1:Project1.exe - Application Error
The exception Floating-point inexact result.
(0xc000008f) occurred in the application at location 0x77f1d493.
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Service Pack
4 for Visual Studio 6.0.
For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following
article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why
Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed
To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft
Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates.asp
MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Create a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.
2. On the Project menu, select Components, choose the Microsoft Windows Common
Controls-3 6.0, and then click OK.
3. Add a CoolBar control to Form1.
4. Paste the following code into the code window of Form1:
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
End
End Sub
5. Run the project in the Visual Basic IDE. Exit the form by clicking the X
button, and note that no problem arises.
6. Compile the project and run the EXE outside the Visual Basic IDE. Click the X
button to exit the application, and note the Application error.
Additional query words: sp4 GPF IPF
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Keywords : kbCtrl kbRebarCtrl kbVBp kbVBp600bug kbGrpDSVB kbDSupport kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix
Technology : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2 kbVB600Search kbVB600
Version : :6.0
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbfix
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